not booting from bootable cd

[dwcasey]

This is an older system ( only about 2.5 years ) that has a dvd/cdrw drive. I've booted and installed windows xp as well as linux on this system in the past, but it got put away because I got some new hardware.

Well, I've decided to fire it up again. I burned a .iso image of ubuntu which will boot from an IBM laptop I have. This CD will not boot in this machine.

I've tried to setup both the hard disk and cdrom on IDE channel 0 with HD as primary and cd as secondary. BIOS is setup to boot 1st CDROM, 2nd HD, 3rd CDROM.

When I power system on, I see the message BOOT CD: and it waits a minute, then it rolls right past it and boots the hard disk.

Why won't this machine boot the CD? I have had various OS's installed, what am I missing?

Before I went to a single channel, primary/secondary setup, I had the CDROM on IDE 1 and Harddisk on IDE 0, both as primary, that did not work either.

 

[fachmannn]

There is a possibility while it was sitting collecting dust that the eye or drive were damaged or collected dust themselves. I could say try swapping drives or blowing some air inside of the ROM. If that doesn't work, try didnt boot CD's sometimes the sectors won't load on curtain drives or motherboards. It all depends, it sounds like a fault ROM to me.